Iron Chef Cook-Off 2012

Courtesy Santropol

Why?Iron Chef, Montreal-style.

What’s better than an episode of Iron Chef? Seeing the competitive foodie action go down in real life. For a third consecutive year, Santropol Roulant, the charitable arm of mainstay Plateau restaurant Santropol, will host its own version of the vaunted cooking contest. Teams of chefs from restaurants like Rumi, Holder and Sala Rossa, among others, will meet at McGill’s Edible Campus Garden. They’ll pick an arsenal of vegetables and get to work making healthy -- and seriously creative -- dishes for a panel of judges to scrutinize while we marvel at their resourcefulness and sip drinks, content that we’ll probably never have to scrape a meal together this way.